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I believe in the wind. Always coming, and ever changing, I view my life to be a set of situations constantly forming me and forever ushering change. All of life is about change. At one moment, I am standing on the edge of a great cliff, trying to figure out how to cross it, and before a plan can even be meditated upon, I am being blown to the other side and landing in a place I had not anticipated landing. When choosing colleges I always knew I wanted to go to Catholic University in Washington, DC. I had turned in my application early, and had letters of recommendations written by my deacon and favorite teachers. I said to myself, “This is where I want to be.” When I got my acceptance letter in early January, I was thrilled. But, then I toured the school. It did not feel right. I was distraught. I had the same feeling with my safety schools, none of them were right. I went back to the files where I kept all of my letters of proposals from schools, and OU stuck out at me. I applied late. “Oh well, I still have Catholic,” I said. Then in April, the windy days brought about a change. I was accepted. I toured. I had found my school, the University of Oklahoma. If I had not taken chances and been blown off course, I would have never found where I am today. All that I do, and all that I have done, blows me in the directions that I believe God has destined. Yet again, I feel great change approaching as I reach the beginning of the end to my college career, I am nervous and anxious for the future, but never frightened, because the wind will carry me where to where I need be. I must take chances and not be afraid to be swept around. I do not believe that I solely shape my life. I believe that it is in instances where I am whisked off track that truly shapes the person I am ever evolving into. I believe the wind blew me to Oklahoma.

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Growing up in the former Yugoslavia, lawyer Djenita Pasic enjoyed the peace of her religiously diverse country. But after the fall of communism and the outbreak of the Bosnian War, Pasic was forced to reevaluate her ideas about religion and tolerance. Click here to read her essay.